T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , JA N U A R Y 13, 189S. b reik in g • n ink well over his evil W’H next discuss for a moment story? There could, in the n atu re most distinctly when you are asleep th e m y sticism in science of the case, he hut one w itn ess— and dream ing. head. (er of the nether tor>w care of C. Elton B lanchard. own band, certified by a notary? the virgin M ary, crucified, dead world, cam e greatly into pr in' editor C urrent 1 b o u g h t, 802 An- jja v e we her testim ony? W hut buried, and descended into hell” nence d u rin g the eighth and ninth scj \ ve Cleveland. O. have we? .Joseph, the m an with where he met the thief who was to centuries. Baptism was the favor­ two fathers, is alleged to have had be with him in Paradise. He al«o ite exorcism in which the devil F o r th e Torch of Reason, a dream which quieted w hat was ascended into heaven. was driven from the soul. The fa- Bible L essons. supposed to he his m ind about the W here is heaven? Robert Bur- m ous synod of Leptinse, in 743 A. ----------- . . , _ , , .4 * ii* rpi i . • i paterm tv of .Jesus. H e w a s a gr»-at dette said that Mo lv Garfield was D., thought it necessary to add to I he com bined ecclesiastical f ® dream ..t-i. er. I suppose men with two a witch who could flv over the - . » * -xv i i, u. u , .i „ . , ; , th e confession of faith an “ abre- churches nave started a new series . f . . „ ,. o i o- r v i i l „ r i .. . ;,i, » fa th e rs u s u a lly are. He used highest church steeple in Hartford u u n ciatio n ” of the devil. Roskofi of bible bssons. 1 hey pick out . , , . , , X , , ,, .i . i i . , t .. . i dream s to find out what was going on a broomstick. II<* had not seen tells us th a t the Low -G erm an scraps arid patches here and there, . »» ,, . i - includes, i i n .i ; . what u ♦ they in ,.,1 1 explana- ^ .1 ..« . on m the world ’ as we m oderns use M olly G arfield, ’ nor did he see her form ula as well, the re- and i give call . . n of r ., the three great . /. .• -rk \, shows i . .... *k..» wi Al- i i the telephone and telegraph. But flv, n u n ciatio Ger- timis. th is th a t i' Goo 1 * 1 - out be bad seen the church m an deities along with the devil. m ighty, w.mn he wrote his book, how cat, we know th a t he dreem ed steeple and the broom stick. So did not have tim e to arran g e it ° " t “ 'e rig h t theory? Dream s, even baron M unchausen threw I t was given as follows: properly. S ingular th a t he should »•>'<>»? the ancients, were not the hatchet to the moon. The moon is “ Forsake thou the d ev il?” stak e his reputation on a las.k, got- lnf»lli,,le source of certitude in there and there are m arks u n it; “ I forsake the devil.” ten up like S alm agundi, which matt« rs of fact an d hist<»rv, th a t but w here is heaven? “ And all devil w orks?” brethren suppose J). P ries T ley . m ight properly he furnished with our Christian “ 1 forsake all devil w orks.” the proem which Coleridge prefixed th e m to have been. “ And all devil guilds?” There was a Jesus, the son of L1TTLL TORCH5. to one of his: “ I forsake all devil guilds, works Sirach, the reputed a u th o r of Ec- “ T h is book m ust su re im m o rtal lie, ByVV. E Johnson and words, Thornor, and \\ oden, clesiasticus, who wisely said, “ W ho­ K imi sii-, it cannot fail, and Saxnot, and all the evil ones For ’tis incom preh en sib le, so regardeth dream s is like one who The wise C hristian looks hack- And w ith o u t bead or ta il.” th a t are his com panions.” pursneth a shadow’ and followeth ward and forward ami all around him .— [N ashville C hristian Advo- r„. 4 » k r * i These lessons are to begin with a f,(.r ihe wind.” I he tru th cannot be disputed , ,.. . » w '•« .» T . , . . , . .... . . . . . , i Hie *, 'e Jesus. Now if they It ]s th«* shadow of this shadowy cate th a t C h ristian ity was regarded as . , - ’Eraid some other C hristian will . . . . . t w otild give an honest lesson on this dream which we find ourselves a kind of magic. 1 he sacram ent , . t , . . . r , subject, all the succeeding lessons cha-m g when in pursuit of the pick bis pocket. was a kind of sacred sorcery and ... u , , , , , S f would become superfluous and there (.e n tra | („ C hristian history, the literal flesh and blood idea of ... . . . ... , „• , , , T . . . . . , , 4 would he a gr« a t saving of “ labor.” How do we know that Joseph had praying the bread and wine clings to n , , . 4 , . . . , .. 1 , Two needed r „„ revivals— _ . , . , ... , But this is not what ’he nianipu- any dream ? We have not his tes- and p a y in g — [ I he C hristian Stand- hu m an m inds today with great . . f , ,, , J \ a v J e lators of churches and S unday i t j UJUI,v . The gospel according t o ' ard. “ J* schools are after. Religion has M atthew says he had a dream , but The priest never depends on pray- As a «ample of the m ysticism never been an industry in th e pur- w,,o wa9 M atthew? ’nP to God to collect his salary. which satisfied the people from th e of w|,jcfi honesty is the best Rev. J. R. Miller I). J), in the H e passes the h at and calls upon 8ih to the lo th century I refer you pOjjcv current num ber of The Record of the faithful to “ dig up” . to th a t wonderful hook, “ Dialogus I he gospels according to Mat- C hristian Work says, “ We do not M iracu o ru m ,” hv Cffisarinus von thew and Luke begin with a m an, know where he was horn. The devil was fairly well ac­ H eisterhach who died in 1245. . Joseph, who had two fathers. The, He breaks nto the story of the quainted with the Scriptures and 1 his book became very p o p u la r.-. . . . . ., , , , ,, . , , l t . 1« n o t. I d , h e w n n f , i e r p i l . n t t ; o r • i n infallible M atthew says, Jacob be- gospel suddenly, w it,mut any « » nre- could quote them on occasion, hut . . . . It is not to be wondered at, for in Ids heart was filled with enmity gat Joseph.” The infallible Luke vious intim ation of his existance. it we read of m any m ysterious toward God. [M e th o d ist Recoid- says Jesus, when he began to teach, . . . Only three incidents of i er. things. It states a t the hour of was about th irty years of age, he- his life are recorded. . . . Hi We go still farther. We hroadlv death, pious people will see the ¡ng (as was supposed) the son of nam e appears in I he first ch ap ter of 8Ugpect th „ t the Devil even wro,'e portals of heaven open for them , Joseph the son of Hell. Here we A c t s - h i s name o n ly — and th a t is | 6ome of the Script Scriptures. Mar.v while infidels will be tortured b y ', 1 . , . , . , » I ''ave an account of a mao with two the last glim pse we have of him .” passages are sm utty enough to black men and vultures, and for . . . . . . .. . . .... . .. , . .. fathers. And this wonderful man Such is the com prehensive : have b„ .n w ritten in i a sewer. the special edification of the fa ith ­ ful rasom ed throng the dam ned are ' W,It ‘ t ''° ,a ,b ‘‘rs w”8 “ 'e .biography of the man who is sup- throw n one by one into the crater e< , Jh*UH’ u h<> P<>^d to have told us of this dream , , n e to . confirm c .1 p , re a lly a n d tru ly did not h av e a n y . w i In • ch , s . t a n d . s a lo the .4 It . ts . . the . follv • of skepticism , that , of a volcano. ■ " J it shuts its eyes to the tru th and ,ir, . • ... , ... ’ ’ h h a l | wt* suppose, to m ake a n o>t m onstrous and im probable t kpn W bat a woe is this terrible power k . . . . J |tnen com plains th at it. cannot see. . . . .... harm ony of In gospels, th a t Jesus story th a t was ever told. Blit there [N ashville C hristian Advocate. of m ysticism ! \\ hat a sorrow to a k..n »„•« .... . r « . . . , . , , a ■ ’ 1,0 l " ° hitheis, viz., Joseph is also the additional ditlicultv that Your religion doesn’t ask us to race th a t m ight have been and a glmst ? M atthew m ust have w ritten his w ritten his see. You dem and th a t we shall thousands of years in advance of J« sus was fond of calling him self gospel, im dium istieally, some gen- “ live hv fa ith ” and warn us not to its present statu s hut for it. W bat a crime against nature th a t the the son of man, which he was not if erations after he was dead; for the see. You c .n depend on skeptics m ind of m an should have been t lie ghost alone was his fat her. T his gospel did not appear until near to fail to see what does not exist — th u s befogged. Yet it is easily case of a m an without a father is ihe beginning of the t h i ’d century, only priests and inebriates ee realized how helpless we have been most em phatically one to which We have “ wise men from the e a s t” double. ___ ______ under the spell, when I tell von H u m e ’s experience argum ent is ap- follow ing a fte r “ bis s t a r ” , w hich plieable. According to C hristians «tar “ went before them till it came I ntil Nov. 10 last, a young cou­ th a t persons in this very audience them selves this is a sole, isolated ami stood over where the \o u n g hear with a strange sense of fear ple could not get legally m arried in instance. All other cases of the l»e- child was.” We have a flock of th e words I speak to you. It takes Peru unless the ceremony was pet- g e ttin g of, m en by gods or ghost« angels flying about in the night, courage to he free, especially to free are fabulous. 1 here is not another praisinggod and saving “ Glorv to a atholic priest. It was one’s m ind from this great enem y case in the history of the w orld like God in tin* h ig h est, an d on earth ' ” dy by listening to tliejibherish of m ysticism . ' t it or analagons to it. Each iudivid- peace atmmg men in whom he is some monk th at a legal wife could \V ith this brief reference to the ua, of the one billion three him- well pleased.” T hat is w hat the be obtained. On th a t date the Pe- relation <»f m ysticism to religion dred m illions of living in h a b ita n ts revised version say > the angels said, ruvian congress passed a bi,! legal* w< h av e it w ith very g«ntle hand- of this globe had a father. Each but tell us th at many ancient au- izing m arriages performed by the ling, for it is realized bow such a one of the countless billions which thoi¡ties say that they said some- civil authorities. Of course the fie< discussion shocks the m inds of history and arch®oh>gy give ac- thing else. Angels are h ard to re- priests fought desperately, but had those who have long huggtd to count of had a father, with th i-o iie port. A ou have to catch them on to give wav to m odern ideas. Grad- th e ir h earts what they are pleased exception. W hat, then, would he the fly. You can see them better ually the * priesthood is losing its to call the religion of my m other.” the evidence to substantiate such a t with your eyes shut ami hear them grip, even in South America.